Study lays out high cost of limited, safe truck parking
One 290-mile stretch of Oregon highway saw $75 million in ‘crash harm’ over seven-year study.
There is a high cost for not having enough safe places for commercial truck drivers to park and rest, according to a pilot study by Oregon State University.
Over a seven-year period on one 290-mile stretch of highway alone, at-fault truck crashes resulted in about $75 million of “crash harm,” research conducted by the OSU College of Engineering for the Oregon Department of Transportation shows.
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